Investigative Shortfall — Many news outlets are doing far less accountability reporting than in the past, bad news indeed for the public. New nonprofit investigative ventures have emerged, but they can't pick up the slack by themselves. On her last day at Fort Lauderdale's Sun-Sentinel …

A New Digital Battlefield — Amazon, Apple Rivalry Moves Beyond Music and E-Books Into TV Shows — TV shows are emerging as a new front in the war over digital media between Amazon.com Inc. and Apple Inc., amid their ongoing battles over electronic books and online music.

YouTube Ads Turn Videos Into Revenue — SAN BRUNO, Calif. — Last month, a YouTube user, TomR35, uploaded a clip from the AMC series “Mad Men” in which Don Draper makes a heartfelt speech about the importance of nostalgia in advertising. — Viewers wouldn't notice, but that clip also makes …

Billboards That Can See You — Japan Pioneers Use of Cameras, Sensors That Let Signs Identify Their Audience — TOKYO—Inside the bustling Shinagawa train station here, a futuristic-looking vending machine has replaced rows of drink bottles and cans with a 47-inch touch-screen monitor.

Reddit Diggs Traffic Surge, Prepares For Expansion — It's all hands on deck at Reddit this week. — In the wake of Digg's bungled redesign, its rival is enjoying a surge in traffic and a jump in ad and subscription sales. Since Monday, the site has been averaging 900,000 uniques per day …

The Newsonomics of less-is-more, more or less — [Each week, our friend Ken Doctor — author of Newsonomics and longtime watcher of the business side of digital news — writes about the economics of the news business for the Lab.] — It is a head-turner, which seems to be, at first, an only-in-Utah story.

The man behind the Sherrod affair — Andrew Breitbart, whose posting of video clips got a Department of Agriculture official fired, was a liberal Westside child of privilege whose political epiphany transformed him into a conservative. — Andrew Breitbart, once a liberal Westside child of privilege …

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